Remains of the Day: Mishmash

Apple bids adieu to its vice president of numbers, the story of how RIM failed to hit AT&T's softball pitch, and Google is crashing your MacBook. The remainders for Friday, June 29, 2012 are all mixed up inside.

Awww, Betsy, we hardly knew you. No, seriously: Even as the company's principal accounting officer since 2003, your name didn't really come up very much. But we appreciate everything you've done for Apple; now go enjoy a mojito on the beach somewhere, and say hi to Big Bob Mansfield for us.

Speaking of Google, the ever-reliable Gene Munster (note: no affiliation with TV's The Munsters) conducted an "experiment" stacking up Siri against searching for information via Google, and determined that Google beat out Apple's virtual assistant. In other news, Munster also concluded that an orange was 100 percent more orangey than an apple.

Product News:

Aperture 3.3.1 - A small update following Aperture's behemoth 3.3 patch, 3.3.1 fixes an issue that could cause the app to hang or quit unexpectedly when upgrading libraries. Free.